Cingalese

American  

[sing-guh-leez, -lees] / ˌsɪŋ gəˈliz, -ˈlis /

adjective

Cingalese plural

1. Singhalese.

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Cingalese

The strain of voiding dead blood cells, manufacturing new ones and trying to live on a deficient supply is what was killing thousands of Cingalese last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, whatever the cause of the noise, or of the beliefs connected with the noise, may be, no one would explain them as the result of community of race between Cingalese and Aztecs.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew

The religion of the Cingalese is Buddhism, which in Ceylon still flourishes in these times in all its pristine vigour.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

He has got into the current, and he could probably get away with the money at fan-tan or Cingalese pool while he's in his present shape.

From Taking Chances by Cullen, Clarence L.

In order to render the writing more clear and legible, the Cingalese rub it with a mixture of cocoa-nut oil and fine pulverized wood-ashes, which imparts to it durability and prevents obliteration.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von